The gains in health insurance and employer-funded pensions gained by unions for workers in large corporations
A. failed to keep pace with similar gains for workers who worked for smaller companies.
B. made workers for these large companies even more dependent on government social programs.
C. allowed President Truman's Fair Deal to achieve all of its goals.
D. greatly boosted the political unity between workers in large and small companies.
E. lowered pressure from corporate sector workers to increase government social programs.
Ans: E. lowered pressure from corporate sector workers to increase government social programs.
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